The Art of Leadership and Management on the Ground
Author/s: Julie, Frank (2007)
ISBN: 0-620-36826-8
This book is a small attempt to guide those who have assumed positions of organisational leadership to understand and manage the demands placed upon them, to understand the seriousness of the tasks that face them. It examines the requirements of leading from within (yourself) and without (others). It is aimed at providing a foundation to begin understanding the practice of leadership and management in a non-profit organisation.
The Effective Cross-Cultural Manager
Author/s: Shonhiwa, Shepherd
Publisher: Zebra Press, Cape Town
Year of publication: 2006
ISBN: 1 77007 113 X
This book addresses the day-to-day shop floor dynamics of management and leadership in a multicultural environment. It shows managers how to build bridges across cultural gaps to ensure that their companies and staff operate at their full potential, and investigates the parallel value systems of Afrocentrism and Eurocentrism, while seeking to establish a common thread as a way forward. Based on research on leadership conducted by the author in eleven countries across sub-Saharan Africa, the book provides useful definitions, guidelines and strategies for managers at all levels and from all cultural backgrounds.
CPR for Nonprofits
Author/s: Reiss, Alvin H.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, USA
Year of publication: 2000
ISBN: 0-7879-5241-9
In this innovative, practical guide, Reiss shows how dozens of organizations have developed creative strategies for tackling the real-life fundraising, marketing, and management challenges that nonprofits face every day. He introduces a real challenge faced by a nonprofit, guides readers through the steps the organization took in developing a plan to meet the challenge, and then presents the result of the organization’s plan. The book offers accessible, adaptable strategies for dealing with a broad spectrum of nonprofit concerns, such as increasing attendance at special events, stepping up board involvement in fundraising, and handling negative press. Throughout the book, Reiss poses the practical questions readers need to answer in order to apply the case study strategies to their own organizations’ experience.
Effective Management of Social Enterprises
Author/s: Social Enterprise Knowledge Network
Publishers: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, USA
Year of publication: 2006
ISBN: 0-674-02123-1
This book is path-breaking in capturing and analyzing smart social enterprise practices in Latin America. No other publication has evaluated simultaneously and comparatively how 20 leading NGOs and 20 leading businesses in the region and in Spain have planned, approached, and implemented their social actions. The book advances the frontiers of knowledge and practice by documenting the realities of social enterprise experience in the region, offering insights on intelligent practices, providing conceptual management frameworks for the key elements of high-performing social enterprises, and identifying common areas of success in both business and CSO operations.
Learning to Fly
Author/s: Collison, Chris; Parcell, Geoff
Publishers: Capstone Publishing, West Sussex, UK
Year of publication: 2004
ISBN: 1-84112-509-1
This book shows exactly how to put knowledge management theory into practice, sharing the tools and insights of two leading practitioners. Chris Collison and Geoff Parcell share their experiences from a wide range of the world’s leading and learning knowledge management organizations. It is a practical, pragmatic workbook packed with hints and tips to help managers put knowledge management into action immediately.
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Author/s: Drucker, Peter F.
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, UK
Year of publication: 2007
ISBN: 978-07506-8508-5
This book treats innovation and entrepreneurship as disciplines with fairly simple rules that require hard work more than inspiration. Only businesses that accept this, Drucker writes, will survive.
The Knowledge Activist's Handbook
Author/s: Newman, Victor
Publisher: Capstone Publishing , Oxford, UK
Year of publication: 2002
ISBN: 9781841123202
The Knowledge Activist’s Handbook demonstrates through stories of Victor Newman’s personal consulting experiences, how individuals can combine emotion and reflection to create their own knowledge. These narratives are entertaining but at the same time offer insights and concrete strategies. They attack the conspiracy of tedium around the KIM literature.
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